Brill jan 2001 (61 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'By focusing on the forms of religious expression which the sixth-century prophets condemn, we can begin to apprehend the diversity which characterized exilic religion. Moreover, by recognizing the polemical nature of the prophetic critiques and by resolving to read these critiques without pr…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Part 1 of this study is a glossary with comparative analysis of non-normative Akkadian forms, Hittite and Hurrian words, West Semitic lexemes, and words of uncertain origin, with special attention given to the West Semitic forms. Part 2 consists of grammatical observations pertaining to the W…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Hebrew Bible contains varying opinions concerning which cultic items or objects used in worship were appropriate for use within YHWHism and which were not. By analyzing every passage which mentions 'high places' (bamot), sacred trees or poles (asherim), standing stones, altars, and cultic…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Over the past 50 years, major changes have taken place in the distribution of aquatic plants in Europe. Many species have declined whilst other species have increased in abundance or spread, including several that were originally introduced from the New World. Despite the relative richness of…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Neurasthenia, meaning nerve weakness, was 'invented' in the United States as a disorder of modernity, caused by the fast pace of urban life. Soon after, from the early 1880s onwards, this modern disease crossed the Atlantic. Neurasthenia became much less 'popular' in Britain or the Netherland…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A Guide to Negotiation and Mediation is written in a progressive, building-block fashion, moving from simple to more complex ideas. The first section covers basic negotiating strategies, concepts, and tactics; the next discusses cognitive and psychological aspects of negotiation. The book goe…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The first two volumes on patrimonialism in Ugarit and the ancient Near East, this book opens with a lengthy introduction on the interpretation of social action and households in the ancient world. Following this foundation, Schloen embarks on a societal and domestic study of the Late Bronze A…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Mozart's Piano Concertos, especially those composed during the years 1784-'91, are still held in high esteem, two centuries later, by both amateur music-lovers and professional musicians. Strangely enough, only very few comprehensive studies exist on this remarkable section of Mozart's output…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Paradigms Found is an indispensable book for students and teachers of Shakespeare, and for anyone interested in the diverse ways in which his plays are read and taught at the start of the twenty-first century. It traces the paradigm shift in Shakespeare studies which, beginning in the 1970s,…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Der Band Literaturvermittlung um 1900 enthält neun Fallstudien, in denen an ausgewählten Beispielen die Voraussetzungen, Prozesse und Ergebnisse der Literaturvermittlung in den deutschen Sprachraum hinein untersucht werden. Als Ausgangssprachen/-literaturen werden das Jiddische, das Skandinav…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book examines core concerns of human life. What is the relationship between a meaningful life and theism Why are some human beings radically adrift, without radical foundations, and struggling with hopelessness Is the cosmos meaningless Is human life akin to the ancient Myth of Sisyphus…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The list has about 280 author entries covering at least 1800 editions of more than 365 titles. Included are all architectural books known by the compilers that were written between 1460 and 1640 regardless of when they were first published. Dubious editions are identified, and 'ghosts' avoide…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 2002 will mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of Saint Genet. Ever since that date, Jean Genet's work has largely been read and interpreted through Sartre's analysis of the author. In this study, the author seeks to liberate Genet's fiction from the philosopher's stranglehold and reo…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - While there is overwhelming evidence that nationalism reached its peak in the later nineteenth century, views about when precisely national thinking and sentiment became strong enough to override all other forms of collective unity differ considerably. When one looks for the historical moment…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The present volume is the first to address the interrelationship between Goethe's scientific thought and work, his ideas on art and literary oeuvre, and chaos and complexity theories. The eleven studies assembled in it treat one or more elements or aspects of this interrelationship, ranging f…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book evaluates the claims of scientific creationism versus materialistic evolution, while examining other scenarios. Consistently philosophical in methodology and perspective, the book is radically interdisciplinary in content, examining data and arguments drawn from natural science, phi…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This study offers new perspectives on Wolfgang Koeppen, a writer too often consigned to the margins of post-1945 literary history. Examining the interaction of the personal and the social in Koeppen's writings, this book demonstrates that the politics of his works are inherent to their form.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Peu de cultures sont aussi marquées par les multiples représentations de l'espace que celles du Canada francophone. C'est par ces représentations, d'une étonnante richesse, que se comprennent aujourd'hui les notions d'identité, de classe, de langue, de communauté nationale et de généricité. T…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This study investigates the connections between nineteenth-century pioneer women in Canada and their putative twentieth-century biographers in Anglo-Canadian women's fiction by Carol Shields (Small Ceremonies, 1976), Daphne Marlatt (Ana Historic, 1988), and Susan Swan (The Biggest Modern Woma…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book aims to show the many resources at our disposal for grappling with the Holocaust as the darkest occurrence of the twentieth century. These wide-ranging studies on philosophy, history, and literature address the way the Holocaust had led to the reconceptualization of the humanities.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Why do so many contemporary British novels revert to the Victorian tradition in order to find a new source of inspiration What does it mean from an ideological point of view to build a modern form of art by resurrecting and recycling an art of the past From a formal point of view what are the…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book presents a new and exciting theory of the modern French novel by developing the notion of the narrative as a 'textual machine'. Many turn-of-the-century French novels thematically identified their means of narration through the various machines that they depicted. The narrative devi…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - As Brecht's Galileo observed, a country which needs heroes is unfortunate indeed - words which suggest that a society's need for heroes is always a function of its shortcomings. By examining the role that heroes and heroism have played in German literature and culture over the past two centur…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How does one imagine plurality How does one find new strategies for writing diversity and polyphony How does one read the most challenging creative and critical works of the present time This bi-lingual volume of twelve English and eight French papers proposes to breach linguistic critical fr…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book evaluates strategies for managing ethical conflict. Macro-approaches that attribute select values to entire peoples and claim supremacy for these values are suspect. A micro-approach, focusing on the ethics of individual thinkers, is better. The study uses the ethics of Confucius an…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The crown upon the continuing vitality and popularity of Gissing studies in the final decade of the twentieth century was the publication of The Collected Letters of George Gissing (1990-97). The editors of that mammoth undertaking, Paul Mattheisen, Arthur Young and Pierre Coustillas, had lon…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This collection of papers from an international conference held at the Institut français, London, in 1999 focuses on Marguerite Duras's place within the major literary, political and cultural events that helped define the 20th century. Covering the broad areas of Duras's public persona and pa…